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Beats version 6.5.0
editBeats version 6.5.0
editBugfixes
editAffecting all Beats
-
Fixed
add_host_metadata
not initializing correctly on Windows. 7715 - Fixed missing file unlock in spool file on Windows, so file can be reopened and locked. 7859
- Fix spool file opening/creation failing due to file locking on Windows. 7859
- Fix size of maximum mmaped read area in spool file on Windows. 7859
- Fix potential data loss on OS X in spool file by using fcntl with F_FULLFSYNC. 7859
- Improve fsync on linux, by assuming the kernel resets error flags of failed writes. 7859
- Remove unix-like permission checks on Windows, so files can be opened. 7849
- Replace index patterns in TSVB visualizations. 7929
- Deregister pipeline loader callback when inputsRunner is stopped. 7893[7893]
- Add backoff support to x-pack monitoring outputs. 7966
- Removed execute permissions systemd unit file. 7873
-
Fix a race condition with the
add_host_metadata
and the event serialization. 8223 8653 - Enforce that data used by k8s or docker doesn’t use any reference. 8240
- Switch to different UUID lib due to to non-random generated UUIDs. 8485
- Fix race condition when publishing monitoring data. 8646
- Fix bug in loading dashboards from zip file. 8051
- Fix in-cluster kubernetes configuration on IPv6. 8754
- The export config subcommand should not display real value for field reference. 8769
- The setup command will not fail if no dashboard is available to import. 8977
- Fix central management configurations reload when a configuration is removed in Kibana. 9010
Auditbeat
- Fixed a crash in the file_integrity module under Linux. 7753
- Fixed the RPM by designating the config file as configuration data in the RPM spec. 8075
- Fixed a concurrent map write panic in the auditd module. 8158
- Fixed a data race in the file_integrity module. 8009
- Fixed a deadlock in the file_integrity module. 8027
Filebeat
- Fix date format in Mongodb Ingest pipeline. 7974
- Fixed a docker input error due to the offset update bug in partial log join.https://github.com/elastic/beats/pull/8177[8177]
- Update CRI format to support partial/full tags. 8265
- Fix some errors happening when stopping syslog input. 8347
- Fix RFC3339 timezone and nanoseconds parsing with the syslog input. 8346
- Mark the TCP and UDP input as GA. 8125
- Support multiline logs in logstash/log fileset of Filebeat. 8562
- Support different timestamp format in postgresql module. 9494 9650
Heartbeat
- Fixed bug where HTTP responses with larger bodies would incorrectly report connection errors. 8660
Metricbeat
- Fix golang.heap.gc.cpu_fraction type from long to float in Golang module. 7789
- Fixed the RPM by designating the modules.d config files as configuration data in the RPM spec. 8075
- Fixed the location of the modules.d dir in Deb and RPM packages. 8104
- Add docker diskio stats on Windows. 6815 8126
- Fix incorrect type conversion of average response time in Haproxy dashboards 8404
- Added io disk read and write times to system module 8473 8508
- Avoid mapping issues in kubernetes module. 8487
- Recover metrics for old apache versions removed by mistake on #6450. 7871
- Fix dropwizard module parsing of metric names. 8365 8385
- Fix issue that would prevent kafka module to find a proper broker when port is not set 8613
- Fix range colors in multiple visualizations. 8633 8634
- Fix incorrect header parsing on http metricbeat module 8564 8585
- Fixed a panic when the kvm module cannot establish a connection to libvirtd. 7792.
Packetbeat
Added
editAffecting all Beats
- Added time-based log rotation. 8349
- Add backoff on error support to redis output. 7781
- Allow for cloud-id to specify a custom port. This makes cloud-id work in ECE contexts. 7887
- Add support to grow or shrink an existing spool file between restarts. 7859
- Make kubernetes autodiscover ignore events with empty container IDs 7971
- Implement CheckConfig in RunnerFactory to make autodiscover check configs 7961
- Add DNS processor with support for performing reverse lookups on IP addresses. 7770
- Support for Kafka 2.0.0 in kafka output 8399
-
Add setting
setup.kibana.space.id
to support Kibana Spaces 7942 - Better tracking of number of open file descriptors. 7986
- Report number of open file handles on Windows. 8329
-
Added the
add_process_metadata
processor to enrich events with process information. 6789 - Add Beats Central Management 8559
- Report configured queue type. 8091
-
Enable
host
andcloud
metadata processors by default. 8596
Filebeat
- Add tag "truncated" to "log.flags" if incoming line is longer than configured limit. 7991
- Add haproxy module. 8014
- Add tag "multiline" to "log.flags" if event consists of multiple lines. 7997
-
Release
docker
input as GA. 8328 - Keep unparsed user agent information in user_agent.original. 7832
- Added default and TCP parsing formats to HAproxy module 8311 8637
- Add Suricata IDS/IDP/NSM module. 8153 8693
- Support for Kafka 2.0.0 8853
Heartbeat
- Heartbeat is marked as GA.
- Add automatic config file reloading. 8023
- Added autodiscovery support 8415
- Added support for extra TLS/x509 metadata. 7944
- Added stats and state metrics for number of monitors and endpoints started. 8621
- Add last monitor status to dashboard table. Further break out monitors in dashboard table by monitor.ip. 9022
Journalbeat
- Add journalbeat. 8703
Metricbeat
-
Add
replstatus
metricset to MongoDB module 7604 - Add experimental socket summary metricset to system module 6782
- Move common kafka fields (broker, topic and partition.id) to the module level to facilitate events correlation 7767
-
Add fields for memory fragmentation, memory allocator stats, copy on write, master-slave status, and active defragmentation to
info
metricset of Redis module. 7695 - Increase ignore_above for system.process.cmdline to 2048. 8100
- Add support to renamed fields planned for redis 5.0. 8167
- Allow TCP helper to support delimiters and graphite module to accept multiple metrics in a single payload. 8278
- Added died PID state to process_system metricset on system module 8275
-
Add
metrics
metricset to MongoDB module. 7611 -
Added
ccr
metricset to Elasticsearch module. 8335 - Support for Kafka 2.0.0 8399
- Added support for query params in configuration 8286 8292
- Add container image for docker metricsets. 8214 8438
- Precalculate composed id fields for kafka dashboards. 8504
-
Add support for
full
status page output for php-fpm module as a separate metricset calledprocess
. 8394 - Add Kafka dashboard. 8457
- Release Kafka module as GA. 8854
Packetbeat
- Added DHCP protocol support. 7647
Functionbeat
- Initial version of Functionbeat. 8678
Deprecated
editHeartbeat
- watch.poll_file is now deprecated and superceded by automatic config file reloading.
Metricbeat
-
Redis
info
replication.master_offset
has been deprecated in favor ofreplication.master.offset
.https://github.com/elastic/beats/pull/7695[7695] -
Redis
info
clients fieldslongest_output_list
andbiggest_input_buf
have been renamed tomax_output_buffer
andmax_input_buffer
based on the names they will have in Redis 5.0, both fields will coexist during a time with the same value 8167. - Move common kafka fields (broker, topic and partition.id) to the module level 7767.